News & Commentary

A coordinated attack on the First Amendment is happening at schools and universities across the country as state legislators silence the voices of marginalized students and make teachers’ jobs impossible.

ACLU affiliates are challenging discriminatory discipline policies, censorship efforts, and the use of force in schools across the country.

As a high school student in the ACLU National Advocacy Institute, I learned how to organize with and for my trans siblings.

Two Idaho families are challenging HB 71, a dangerous law that intrudes on the rights and lives of transgender youth

We’re challenging the attorney general’s unconstitutional opinion, which threatens to reach across state lines to limit abortion access.

Anti-abortion politicians are going after our right to speak freely and access vital information.

Three artists whose work was removed from an exhibit at Lewis-Clark State College speak out about the shame, disbelief, and prejudice that underscore attempts to silence stories about abortion and reproductive health.

The City of Boise and Jax Perez, a former Boise Public Library employee, who is transgender with a nonbinary gender identity and who uses they/them pronouns, have settled Perez’s federal employment discrimination lawsuit. Perez initially filed a charge of discrimination with the Idaho Human Rights Commission in 2020, after the City issued them a formal employment warning. The discipline warned Perez that it had been inappropriate for them to “make known” to a patron that they were a member of the LGBTQ community during Pride Month, June 2019. Perez later filed a federal lawsuit based, in part, on similar facts in June 2021.